Set your translation options to auto-propagate updates across all pages (instead of just the current page), provided that your content is in a job.

Pre-populate machine translations if there's no TM match available over 100%.

CAT Tool Overview: Smartling does a glossary match of different forms of a word (such as run, ran, running). For example, in the source, the term "currency" will match against "Currencies" in the glossary.

Jobs Dashboard for Agencies: Jobs are automatically updated every 3-hours, however, you now have the ability to refresh the data when needed. The Expand Languages feature has also been implemented allowing you to see each language for each job, along with its associated word count.

Quality Checks: Added a new quality check that verifies whether legal symbols in the source were used in the target.

Sketch: Added ability to preview strings when submitting content, and the ability to select multiple languages when retrieving translations. In addition, you can authorize content from within Sketch (for all languages only). For specific languages, authorization is performed in the Smartling dashboard.

2018 December

CAT Tool

CAT Tool Overview: Added mobile responsive context for translation resources to be able to view what context would look like on a mobile phone or tablet.

Capture Content: For Global Delivery Network projects, all content that passes through the proxy will appear pseudo-localized, allowing you to simulate a translated website before any real translation is done.

Manage Issues Via Slack: This integration enables you to send Smartling translation issues to a Slack channel and take action on them from within Slack.

2018 August

Developer

Automatically Create a Job Upon File Upload: When using certain parameters for uploading files, your content goes into the translation queue upon file upload, and strings from the file will automatically be added to a job.

XML: Added two new directives: character_limits_paths and instruction_paths.

2018 February

CAT Tool

Missing Tags: Tags that have not been placed in the translation field will be shown in red in the source.

Special Characters: You now have the ability to quickly insert special characters in the target field of the CAT tool.

Dashboard

Sketch Plugin: New version of the Sketch plugin. Fixed issues with applying styles and new line characters.

Manage Issues: In addition to downloading the Issues Details Report, you can now view and manage all issues from within the Smartling Dashboard.

Connectors

Contentful Connector: The Contentful platform lets you create, manage, and distribute content to any platform. Contentful customers are interested in a seamless approach to translating their content and media asset types. The Smartling Contentful Connector facilitates the translation process.

GitHub Connector: If your localization resource files are in a GitHub repository, the Smartling GitHub connector may be the ideal option for automating the process of sending source files to Smartling, and getting translations into your repository, where you need them.

2017 December

Fixed an issue in FireFox where the cursor jumped to the end whenever selecting a segment that was inactive.

Added a filter for unresolved issues.

We now show the number of comments pertaining to an issue.

We rearranged the comment box in Issues so that comments are more noticeable.

Fixed an issue where adjusting the height of the side panel in one browser window unset changes made in another browser window

Implemented a number of improvements for editing speed on large strings.

Added a user preference to stop the string list from automatically scrolling.

Added a user preference for font size.

Dashboard

ICU Message Format: Smartling supports standard arguments (a.k.a. placeholders), as well as 'select' and 'plural' arguments. The following items will not be supported: 'selectordinal', nested 'select' and 'plural', and plural strings with multiple plurals. If you are currently using MessageFormat or considering using it, contact your Smartling Customer Success Manager to review your files and ensure compatibility.

Offline Work for Jobs: To enable taking jobs offline, Account Owners can contact their Customer Success Manager. Once the feature is enabled, Translations Resources will be able to export a job to work offline, and then import the translations back to Smartling.

2017 November

Video Context: Media projects now support translation using YouTube videos as context.

Chrome Browser Extension for Capturing Context: Now has a standard Smartling login form. Therefore, it supports sign in with Google and also better handles difficulties with logging in (for example, a forgotten password).

2017 September

CAT Tool

Quality Check Severity Errors: Improved experience of Medium Severity Errors. As part of our continuing work to improve how bulk save works, medium severity errors now have new buttons: “Fix Later” and “Save Anyway”. Selecting either button will let you immediately move on to the next string instead of stopping the the queue of strings to save.

TM Matches: Fixed an issue where TM matches were sometimes not repopulating on page load.

Plurals: Fixed an issue with plurals where the string status (check mark) was not getting updated when a user was editing other forms.

Dashboard

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2017 August

Resize Panels: You can now resize the height of panels. For example, the height of a panel (such as the Language Resources panel) can be modified by clicking and dragging the top or bottom edge of the panel.

Severity Errors: All high severity errors are batched together for bulk save. They’ll be shown at the end of the save process after all other strings have been saved.

Drafts: Improved how we handle “empty” drafts.

Save and Submit: Save All and Submit buttons are split into two separate ones to make those actions clearer.

Glossary: Fixed an issue that was preventing glossary terms created in character-based languages from being highlighted.

Unconfirmed Strings: Fixed an issue around the number of “unconfirmed” strings being shown in the CAT tool.

Badges: Number of “badges” in the sidebar is only shown if the number is greater than 0.

Spellcheck: Fixed some usability issues with the add to dictionary/spellcheck popup.

Copy Only Tags: Fixed a bug around “copy only tags.” If you press the “copy only tags” shortcut, and there are no tags in the target, we no longer delete the translation in the target.

100% Matching: Fixed an issue with 100% matching when comparing strings with different segmentation but matching content.

Pre-Populate: Pre-populate TM matches used to only be available for 100% matches. Now, Translators can set any Fuzzy Match threshold they want to populate TM matches.

MT: Improve the quality of machine translations through an approach that combines human translations with machine learning (adaptive machine translation).

Jobs: New navigation and feature enhancements to Jobs. For now, this is being rolled out to new enterprise clients.

Search and Replace: Content search and replace allows you to perform a "find and replace" on your translated strings.

String Search: Search for a string by the date it was added/uploaded.

Content Velocity Reports: The Content Velocity by Workflow Report (data is grouped by workflow) and the Content Velocity by Locale Report (data is grouped by locale) provide insight into the average amount of time that a word or a string spends in a particular workflow step from content authorization to publishing.

Content Changes Reports: The Content Changes by Workflow Report (data is grouped by workflow) and the Content Changes by Locale Report (data is grouped by locale) provide insight into how much content is actually changing in each step of a workflow.

Badges: Only red number “badges” are shown in the resources panel if there are more than 0 items.

Launch Title: Fixed issue with automatically generated launch title being too long. AEM has restriction on length of launch title. During launch title creation, unique data is added at the end of the title and is cut according to AEM rules. If page title is too long, we had an issue with creating the same launch title during the creation of the following launch title.

Quality Check Tools allow for management of quality errors in the CAT tool.

Quality check settings improved for business documents.

Fixed progress bar to show correct progress for Edit/ Proofread step.

Decoupled Reject action from Confirm action across all workflow steps.

Restricted Confirm action to only be available in post-translation and admin approval steps.

Fixed error thrown when glossary shortcut is used when no glossary exists for linguistic package.

Fixed non-functioning Custom status for string filters.

Improved memory management for context.

Formatted TM results to be the same as Glossary search results.

Reviewer can submit content, even if it is locked from editing.

Fixed incorrect focus on string on page load, if CAT tool loaded from any point other than list view.

Fixed context not loading when user clicks on source.

Resolved spellcheck not functioning for multiple languages, including Hungarian.

Fixed merge functionality for document translation.

Fixed only saved strings to be submitted on Submit action (previously also Submitting Draft strings).

Improved tag insertion/ resolved tag inconsistency error performance.

Improved quality check warning to show the highest severity associated with a string.

Dashboard

First release of design tool plugins: Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator. Sketch has some additional functionality to be able to automatically submit content and context to Smartling using your Smartling account. Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator will have this functionality in a forthcoming release; for now, source content is exported as a file and translated content is imported back in as JSON. All three plugins support pseudo translation.

Powerpoint files uploaded to the Dashboard now have options for selecting slides, master slides, and notes.

Exporting translation memory now has the ability to select multiple languages for download.

Character limits can now be specified in iOS and Android resource files. The specific values from the files will be set on the string. Example for iOS Strings:

/*This is an instruction*//*smartling.character_limit=25*/"thisis.a.key" = "This is a string";

Assign All button has been added to make it easier to assign all content to a single resource.

Word Count Report to view by translation resource in addition to Language and Job.

iOS Files: The `includeOriginalStrings` parameter has been added to support iOS .stringsdict and .strings files.

An addition to the Eloqua connector to allow for automatically rewriting content as it moves from Smartling to Eloqua. The primary use case is to replace phone numbers, email addresses, and other blocks of content to localize it for a particular market.

Build rules to automate how content is packaged into a job through Job Automation. Rules can include or exclude files or URLs, be built for specific languages, and more.

Wordpress: New 1.4.4 release which brings the new way how to register custom post types for localization- no custom code has to be written - just describe what should be localized in the custom post type and the rest will happen automatically. Also extended integration for Wordpress "shortcodes." This was done for upcoming release of Divi Builder localization. In addition, improved memory and CPU usage. Wordpress Connector works only when content editor submits content from Wordpress Admin UI so loading of connector's code by Wordpress when page is rendered for site visitors has been removed.

2017 February

Dashboard

TM Leverage Report: See how much content has benefited from leverage of Translation Memory.

Demandware: Addresses issue in applying translations when Demandware does other concurrent updates of products in background (backup; replication stg ↔ prod). Background tasks (for uploading and downloading content) were switched to a new Demandware platform version. Continue refactoring which is required to switch on FAPI v2. Also added Test Connection button in Smartling settings.

Repository: Improvements in SVN flow - it's more robust in case when workspace is in broken state (previous operation failed because of network; security; etc). For Git flow, added validation that workspace is in consistent state. Can be useful for troubleshooting. Also updated validation pattern for client locale code. So now a customer can use any string as client locale code (length: 1 to 50).

Sitecore: Introduced presentation layout customization per language. It means that content editor can adjust presentation (add personalization and so on) for every language without involving developers. We added native support for this feature. Also added the new Sitecore WF step which allows a customer to submit an item to all configured locales. So if client uses WF then upload to Smartling can be just a part of his WF and no need to send content to Smartling explicit. Every new content, or updates in content will be submitted to Smartling automatically.

Wordpress: Released an additional plugin for Wordpress. The core plugin supports translation of built-in WP types including simple customizations, but almost every website uses additional 20-30 plugins which extend WP functionality. And some of these plugins use custom storage for content. The new plugin, Smartling ACF Localization, allows a customer to translate content created by popular ACF plugin (1M+ installations).

2017 January

Content Changes by Workflow Report: Shows how workflow could be optimized by removing steps where few changes are made.

Content Velocity Report: Identifies bottlenecks to optimize workflow.

AEM Classic Connector: New URL Rewriter: Covers more cases and default behavior. Rewrites everything that is possible and exclusions can be configured. Simplified Integration: For those who built automation on top of Classic connector we simplified integration. Now required input parameters are more straightforward.